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There are some known issues/bugs related to VS 2010 Web Deployment features in VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me… I can imagine reading the entire Beta 2 read me file can be daunting so I thought I can just copy paste the ones related to Web Deployment here… DB Deployment will fail if the Database Name is longer than 127 characters Description: If you are using latest VS 2010 Web Deployment Features and trying to deploy your database using the Deploy SQL property page then at times you might get error from VSMsDeploy task.  There might be several reasons for the failure including connection and authentication issue but a current bug in the product does not allow you to script schema/data from a database (typically SQL Express MDF file) if the file...

One of our MVPs Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi is doing a Live Meeting  M VP TV talk on : Simplifying Deployment With the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) You are invited to join the talk which is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14 th , 2009 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT, Redmond time) Abstract Deploying ASP.NET Websites has always been a challenge and different teams have used different approaches to overcoming those challenges. Microsoft has offered some support for making deployment easier in the past. For instance they first introduced Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2005, and also have a version for 2008. Web Deployment Projects do greatly simplify the process of calling the aspnet_compiler and aspnet_merge tool but even though their title...

I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the program).  Once enrolled, you can download and use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of...

In past few months I and my team have written a few blog posts on VS 2010 Web Deployment features… In VS 2010 there was a lot of investment made in Web Deployment and over next few months I will be writing more on the subject… Every time someone asks me for a link to one of it I land up recommending them search keywords to find it on the web…:-)  Instead of doing a search over and over again below is the list of all the posts for easy reference: Overview of Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild Creating a Web Package using IIS Manager How does Web Deployment with VS 10 & MSDeploy Work? Installing Web Packages using Command Line Importing...

Today the Microsoft IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems...

Before we talk about the reasons why you should create a Web Package let us first understand what is a web package… Web Package is an atomic, transparent, self describing unit representing your web application which can be easily hydrated into any IIS Web server to reproduce your web…  It is a .zip file which not only contains your content but also contains its dependencies like IIS Settings, Databases, GAC DLLs, Registry Keys etc… The concept of creating Web Packages for deploying your web application to an IIS Web Server is recently introduced with Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy) and towards the end of this post I will talk about how you can create a Web Package for your web app… But before going there let me talk about the 10...

Today I am hoping to talk about installing/importing a Web Package into IIS using IIS Manager… For this walkthrough you will first need a Web Package… If you want to get few ready made packages you can get them from Web Application Gallery …  There is also a MsDeploy package of BlogEngine.NET available on CodePlex , which you can download to try out this walkthrough… Hopefully, eventually you will be creating your own web packages for deployment and this walkthrough will even apply at that time…  If you want to learn how to create a web package from Visual Studio 2010 then read the below posts: How to create a web package from VS 2010 How to create a web package using MsBuild commandline How to include SQL DBs within your web packages...

I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble I'd had with Check Images. Just in case you're not clear, 6 years is like a century years on the internet. Here's a little snippet from my incredibly old blog post: HTTP Headers are name values pairs, so they are easily added with the Response object in ASP or ASP.NET You use it like this (the HTTP Headers): HTTP/1.1 200 OK <snip> Content-Disposition: filename=checkimage.jpg Content-Length: 76127 Content-Type: image/JPEG Or, if you want to immediately prompt the user with...

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – is a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly...

The IIS team has released the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7.0 - Beta . The Dynamic IP Restrictions provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. Install the Dynamic IP Restrictions Beta Today! Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x86) Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x64) If IIS already has IPv4 Address and IP restrictions...